Subject: Re: disklabels across platforms
To: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/01/1999 16:29:02 
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:

> Actually, I just tried with a zip disk.  On a NetBSD/mac68k machine,
> 
> tar cvf /dev/sd1c mydirectory
> 
> then on a NetBSD/sparc
> 
> tar tvf /dev/sd1c

On both ports you mentioned, partition c is the whole-disk partition. Thus
you're side-stepping the disklabeling. :-)

Take care,

Bill